Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 10-4-22

Today’s playlist celebrates the October 4 birthdays of Pet Shop Boys’ Chris Lowe, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar, M. Ward, The El Dorados’ Pirkle Lee Moses Jr., t.A.T.u.’s Lena Katina, Jurassic 5’s Cut Chemist, Lil Mama, Leroy Van Dyke, Penny McLean, Big Jaz, and Susan Sarandon; and the October 5 birthdays of Steve Miller, AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, Madness’s Lee Thompson, Sparks’ Russell Mael, The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy, The Pharcyde’s SlimKid3, Sweet’s Brian Connolly, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart’s Kip Berman, Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts, Billy Lee Riley, The Chantels’ Arlene Smith, The Boomtown Rats’ Bob Geldof, B.W. Stevenson, The Edsels’ George “Wydell” Jones Jr., Glynis Johns, William Tabbert, and Mrs. Miller.

It’s Sia’s Birthday And I Need To Dance!

The Guardian described Sia’s “Chandelier” as “a warning about the pitfalls of a party lifestyle.” About the song, MTV News wrote “Sia serves party-girl darkness, toeing the line between celebration and self-destruction as it becomes increasingly more blurred.” Now sober, the singer/songwriter struggled with alcoholism in the past. She told NPR “I wrote [“Chandelier”] because there’s so many party-girl anthems in pop, and I thought it’d be interesting to do a different take on that.”

Friday is dance day at Tunes du Jour. Our weekly party kicks off with “Chandelier,” co-written and performed by Sia, who turns 40 years old today.


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